IME 415 Topic Papers

	ISO 14000 Environmental Management Standard
	Deming's Theory of Profound Knowledge
	Total Quality Management (TQM)
	Theory Z (book William Ouchi)
	Run Charts (non-parametric)
	Registered Professional (Quality) Engineer (PE), Calif.
	Kaizen ("continuous improvement")
	Hoshin planning
	Pre-control charts
	Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
	ISO 9000 Series of standards
	Quality Audit (Interal Quality Audit)
	Deming Prize
	ASQ Certified Quality Engineer Registration (CQE)
	Registrar Accreditation Board (RAB)
	Taguchi methods (loss function)
	Supplier certification programs
	Supply Chain Management
	Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA)
	Robust Design (Taguchi)
	Taguchi methods (orthogonal arrays)
	Benchmarking
	American Society for Quality (ASQ)
	ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer Registration (CRE)
	Deming's Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle
	Dr. Joseph Juran
	Philip Crosby
	"Quality" related Masters/Ph.D. opportunities
	"Six-Sigma" Institute
	Quality Journals (Journal of Quality Technology, Technometrics, Journal of Quality Engineering, etc)
	Dorian Shainan
	Dr. Peter Senge
	Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
	ASQ Certified Quality Manager Registration (CQM)
	Walter Shewart
	TRIZ - Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
	American Supplier Institute, Livonia, MI